Leaders as Chief Repenters
Dr. Scotty Ward Smith – for the Spurgeon’s Fellowship
The Indicatives of Grace
2Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit,if any tenderness and compassion,2then make my joy completeby being like-minded,having the same love, being onein spirit and of one mind.3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,4not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
The Imperatives of Love
5In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with Godsomething to be used to his own advantage; 7rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! 9Therefore God exalted himto the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
What is a Chief Repenter? What I learned from having Jack Miller as a spiritual father for 21 years: “The Heart of a Servant Leader”
A Chief Repenter is a Pacesetter in…
1. Gospel Astonishment (Versus theological arrogance or coolness)
2. Transparency and Vulnerability (Versus posing and pretending)
3. Owning and Confessing Our Sin (Versus micro-managing one’s reputation)
4. Boasting in Weakness (Versus denying or despising weakness)
5. Foot Washing Servanthood (Versus scepter grabbing control)
6. Joyful Dependent Prayer (Versus the illusion of competency)
7. Loving the Least and the Lost (Versus simply enjoying the saints)
8. A Passionate Commitment to the Means of Grace (Versus being too cool for spiritual
disciplines and “quiet times”)
9. Walking with a Gospel Posse (Versus living as an independent loner)
10. Missional Passion & Engagement (Versus being bored and boring others)